Where your phone comes from
Eight steps through the chip chain, from the design to the shop. Each step moves the map.
Global value chains
This page answers: Which country leads each stage of a value chain, and which straits do its inputs cross?
Using this page
- Choose a chain: chips and electronics, or batteries and cars.
- Tap a stage to see the countries that lead it, on the map and in the list.
- Tap a country or a flow for its details and sources.
The chain, step by step
The chain on the map
Library scenarios
Choose a strait to see its scenario page’s approved result, the cited flows of these chains on that strait, and which stages use those inputs. Illustrative arithmetic on stated assumptions; it does not say whether, when or for how long a strait will close.
Strait
Where one country holds the stage
Cited flows on the map
Stage by country: each one's share of the stage
Sources, method and credits
Every figure on this page opens its publisher, period, licence and confidence when tapped. Figures from commercial research firms are cited only and never go into data files.
How to read the shares and the flows
Not enough open data
Credits and licences
Where to go next
Countries, briefs, forecasts and companies behind this map.
Countries
Taiwan South Korea Japan China United States Netherlands Germany Vietnam MalaysiaEach country’s page: the questions our briefs address and, for the larger economies, which straits carry its supply.
Briefs
Forecasts
The forecasts these briefs registered, in the register: C-005, Taiwan and the Philippines · C-005, trade clocks. The full forecast register
Strature Exposure demos
A car-parts makerWhat can reach one company, where and when, read from public sources.
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